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Women’s cycling links 25th March

This week we’re not podcasting, but we’ve had all kinds of news and videos from women’s cycling in the last week or so – so here’s a random round-up, with videos, blogs, articles and all kinds of things I’ve liked in the last week in women’s cycling – road, crits, MTB, BMX, breakfast tacos, how to cool down a laptop and more!

The state of women’s cycling

This week has seen the first meeting of the UCI women’s cycling commission – and you can read about who’s there on the UCI website. Marianne Vos will be there, and she asked fans on twitter if we had any ideas, and tells us she’ll update us when the Commission is over. If you’re wondering what else she’s up to while she’s not riding, here are some tweets…

Nicole Cooke may not be cycling any more, but she’s still fighting the good fight. Here she is, on BBC Sport, talking about how the BBC should be showing more women’s sport (and it’s one of those lovely things about the BBC that they publish critical pieces like this). The video may be geo-restricted.

In other BBC news, people have been asking about the streaming of the Road World Cup that the UCI announced would be on the BBC. John Cyclopunk asked BBC Sport why it’s not being scheduled, and here’s the answer, on Neutral Service – basically the quality of the footage wasn’t good enough to show on their tv. (I should point out, the UCI’s press release seems to have raised all kinds of expectations – I’ve blogged about that here)

It was great to see that United Healthcare‘s DS Rachel Healis working with the men’s team, too. Heal is a former cyclist who has run women’s teams for years, and it’s good to see the team is using her experience.

Congratulations to our sporting directors today on a good day, especially @r_heal on being the first woman to direct at #MilanSanRemo#msr

This was poignant – Marijn de Vries writing on Rouleur’s website about attending the Ronde van Drenthe as a spectator, when she should have been racing. Well-written, as always

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This was part of the 26-minute UCI Ronde van Drenthe video, but it’s good enough to show by itself – a profile of Rabo-Liv’s Iris Slappendel, on combining cycling with design, and winning the competition to design the UCI Road World Cup jerseys

Think you can beat downhill World Champion Rachel Atherton and her brother Gee? There’s the chance to challenge their track times, all over the UK. Watch this video to find out how, and more about their approach to racing

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Isn’t that great? Come back to our regular podcast posts for more – and share anything you’ve liked in the comments